Improvement in wall pendants and brackets



- J. AQPIERGE. Wall Pendant and Bracket.

No. 214,583. Patented April 22, 1879.

IN. PETERS. PHOT UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

JOHN A. PIERCE, OF STATESVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WALL PENDANTS AND BRACKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214.583, dated April 22, 1879; application filed March 5, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

I Be it known that I, J OHN ALBERT PIERCE, of Statesville, in the county of Iredell and State of North Carolina, have invented a new and useful Improvement for Hanging Pictures .method is objectionable because the mailer screw disfigures the wall more or less, and sometimes does permanent injury by breaking the same and, moreover, it is sometimes difficult to penetrate a hard wall with nails, pegs, or screws. W

The object of my invention is to provide a method for fastening or adjusting pendants and brackets to plastered walls without the use of said nails, pegs, screws, or anything else that will disfigure, break, or penetrate the wall.

The invention consists in placing one of the cohesive pendants on the wall, above the picture or other thing to be suspended; and when large picture frames are to be hung the cohesive bracket, one at either end and below the picture, is used in addition to the pendant.

1n the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts,-

Figure 1 is a perspective of a device embracing my intention for hanging large pictureframes and the like. Fig. 2 is a similar perspective ofa device for hanging small picor other cement, and when placed against a' plastered wall by means of a like composition as that of which the pendant itself is made, the nature of the wall and the pendant is such that the pendant coheres to the wall permanently.

B represents the base of the pendant, which is so constructed that thecord C may be V rangement formed by the mold of the pendant.

The operation of the device is as follows: The pend ants and brackets are made of cement or any combination thereof." "Klilie'ceifient as that of which the pendant orlir'acliet'fis made, reduced to the proper consistency, is

applied to the pendantor bracket, and when at this stage the pendant or bracket is placed against a damp plasteredwall, said wall being constructed of kindred materials to the pendantor bracket, the pendant or bracket th'ereby coheres to thewall permanently, utterl y doing away with the nse of "ls, screws, or"anyt-hing that penetrates or breaks the wall.

An improvement for fastening or causing to cohere to plastered walls brackets and pendants of any design or shape, made of cement or any combination thereof, which are caused to adhere. to plastered walls by in cans of a cement or any combination of cements of like composition as the pendant or bracket itself, said pendants and brackets to be used for hanging and supporting pictures and the like on plastered walls, substantially as described in the specification.

JOHN ALBERT PIERCE.

Vitnesses:

ARTHUR MATTHEW WVALKER, .tUFUS ALBERT ALEXANDER. 

